TRANMERE defender Gareth Roberts is hoping to complete a memorable week by helping his side kill off any lingering fears of relegation.

He goes into tonight's clash with QPR still on a high after his international career was resurrected by Wales boss Mark Hughes.

A second-half appearance in last week's friendly win over Hungary earned Roberts, (left), his fifth cap and ended a four-year spell out in the cold.

That was followed up with a fine display in Rovers' league victory at Wrexham, the club he supported as a boy.

"It was brilliant to go away with Wales and play the last half hour against Hungary," he said.

"When you come back your confidence is bound to be up and I really enjoyed the game at Wrexham. It's always good to go back to the team you supported as a child."

The victory moved the Wirral club into a mid-table position, but the experienced left-back warned they cannot afford to relax as they are still only eight points above the drop zone.

"We probably need another win to be safe," Roberts admitted. "The teams at the bottom want to stay in the division and they are giving it a damn good go. I'm just glad we have been able to get ourselves out of that dogfight."

Roberts believes Rovers are more than capable of securing those vital three points against tonight's visitors to Prenton Park, who lie second in the table.

"QPR are one of the strongest teams in the division," he noted, "but we have had Plymouth and Bristol City here and I thought we played both of them off the park. We have done really well at home against the top teams, but it has been frustrating we have not done it away.

"We played well for the whole 90 minutes at Wrexham, although I thought they were not their usual selves given they are going for a play-off spot.

"Maybe it was because we were playing well. It was a very good team performance by us.

"The gaffer has changed things round to 4-4-2. I prefer that, but I'll play wherever the manager wants me to.

"We have two out-and-out wingers who are very quick. If we get the ball to them, they can cause a lot of damage to teams and hopefully we can score some goals.

"I just have to keep playing well for Tranmere and if we continue to do well, hopefully I will be involved with the Wales squad again at the end of May."

Rovers have no fresh injury problems for tonight's game.

Victory against the Londoners could actually move them to within six points of the play-off zone, but manager Brian Little dismissed talk of any late promotion challenge.

He said: "I have not cast my mind towards the play-offs at any stage. From being in the relegation zone when I came in to reaching the play-offs would have been an unbelievable turnaround.

"The nice thing would be to finish on as many points as we can, then we could take that as a good starting point for what hopefully will be a reasonable amount of time for me being at the club."

* TRANMERE >under-19s are one win away from retaining their Football League Youth Alliance Cup after reaching the final with a 3-1 win at Deepdale last night.

Carl Tremarco, Thomas Rooney and Steve Jennings put Rovers in the final, where they will play either West Brom or Cardiff City.